Why does the devil hate man?

Answer 1

Some say: "God created an angel named Lucifer, Lucifer thought he was better than God. Then God threw Lucifer and his followers out of Heaven. Lucifer is the devil, and he is evil. This is the reason why the Devil hates God."

Lucifer isn't the devil. The devil was a murderer from the beginning, and Lucifer fell later.

I'm not sure what Lucifer's feelings are, but the devil's ticked because he is pressed for time...

"Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." (Revelation 12:12 AV)

Satan is the serpent, the snake, the dragon ...

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." (Revelation 12:9 AV)

He was a murderer and the father of lies, (Jesus is speaking)...

"Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44 AV)

So we see that the dragon, the serpent, the devil and Satan are the same person and was a murderer from the beginning.

Lucifer, on the other hand, is the king of Babylon...

"4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say... 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" (Isaiah 14:4,12 AV)

As the king of Babylon, he may well be an angel similar to the princes of Greece and Persia that Daniel's instructor was fighting...

"Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the Prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come." (Daniel 10:20 AV)

Lucifer will not be buried...

"Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned." (Isaiah 14:20 AV)

Here's why...

"... therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." (Ezekiel 28:18 AV)

The person being referred to was not a murderer from the beginning...

"Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee." (Ezekiel 28:15 AV)

If one was a murderer from the beginning and the other was not, then they can't be the same person.

The guy in Ezekiel was in the garden of Eden which is why so many people think he's Satan.

But there were more than three beings in the garden of Eden.

Namely, there were at least two cherubs (cherubim)...

"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." (Genesis 3:24 AV)

The guy in Ezekiel was one of them...

"Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." (Ezekiel 28:14 AV)

There's nowhere in The Bible where Satan was walking among stones of fire.

So, two different persons.

As for hating God, Lucifer used to be one of the cherubs on each side of God's throne and now he isn't. Bummer.

Answer 2

If you are referring to the Judeo-Christian concept of God, you should understand that the "devil" is a concept that was grafted on to Judaism from Zoroastrianism.

Zoroastrianism saw things in black and white - you had heaven and hell (hell is also not a Jewish concept) the Devil and God.

"Satan" was the original concept in Judaism. If you read the book of Job you can get an idea of the difference. Satan worked with God. He was a sort of prosecuting attorney who helped God test Job's faith.

Popular representations of the Devil are a guy in a red suit with a pitchfork barbecuing sinners. This is not a concept that is represented in either the New or the Old Testament.

So to answer the question - the concept of the "Devil" does not fit in with traditional Judeo-Christian theology.

Answeryes god loves evryone. however god didnt create the devil, he created a benevolent angel named lucifer, lucifer turned away from god this made god sad and angry but if your child turned against you, u wouldn't stop loving him you would just not love his behavior,what he has become. though no one truly understands the workings of the lord this is how i think god would view the devil..

Answer 3

A:The role of the devil is to exonerate God for the existence of evil in the world. Judaism attributed all that is in heaven and earth, whether constructive or destructive, to the one God. But the intense desire to understand the meaning of evil in a world ruled by God led them to develop the concept of the Evil One. In Judaism, Satan began as an adversary to God, but this notion was abandoned in favour of Satan as the loyal assistant to God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful, a role we see Satan play in the Book of Job. It is in Christianity and Islam that we continue to see the devil as the source of true evil.

The Christian view of the character and role of Satan has swung between two extremes over the centuries, sometimes approaching the point where the devil had no place in theology and sometimes as an immensely powerful and malevolent being inspired by hate for man and for all that is good.

Martin Luther believed the Devil, against his will, always does God's work. For Luther, "God incites the Devil to evil, but he does not do evil himself." Eighteenth century critics said that when we speak of the devil or demons, we merely reflect the superstitions of our time. Those superstitions include the notion that the devil hates man.

Answer 4

Because The Devil is doing a Bad Things